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Introduction
This guide is meant to provide resources to the Carleton community as a response to President Poskanzer's June 2, 2020 statement "...police brutality, violence in our society, and both personal and institutionalized racism. Certainly these are issues that are critical for all of us at Carleton to grapple with, teach about, research, study, and discuss."
Books
The books below are from lists curated by the Carleton Student Association and Office of Intercultural and International Life. Also of interest might be:
- New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's Black Liberation Reading List
- Project Muse's Confronting Structural Racism collection
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture's Talking About Race website
The Color of Law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by ISBN: 9781631492853Publication Date: 2017
The Condemnation of Blackness: race, crime, and the making of modern urban America by ISBN: 9780674238145Publication Date: 2019Also available as an eBook.
Dying of Whiteness: how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland by ISBN: 9781541644984Publication Date: 2019
Eloquent Rage:a black feminist discovers her superpower by ISBN: 9781250112576Publication Date: 2018
Fatal Invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century by ISBN: 9781595586919Publication Date: 2011
Harlem Renaissance : five novels of the 1920s by ISBN: 9781598530995Publication Date: 2011-09-01"Cane" by Jean Toomer -- "Home to Harlem" by Claude McKay -- "Quicksand" by Nella Larsen -- "Plum bun" by Jessie Redmon Fauset -- "The blacker the berry" by Wallace Thurman.
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by ISBN: 9781608468553Publication Date: 2017-12-05Collection of interviews with the three authors of the Combahee River Collective Statement, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier, #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Alicia Garza, and historian and activist Barbara Ransby.
Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 081433833XPublication Date: 1994-11-04This compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance brings together for the first time the works of Langston Hughes (including "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"), George S. Schuyler, Francis Hall Johnson, Shirley Graham, and others.
The Making of Black Lives Matter: a brief history of an idea by ISBN: 0190601345Publication Date: 2017
Me and white supremacy Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by ISBN: 9781728209814Publication Date: 2020
The Next American Revolution: sustainable activism for the twenty-first century by ISBN: 9780520953390Publication Date: 2012
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race by ISBN: 9781118958728Publication Date: 2015
Raising Our Hands: how white women can stop avoiding hard conversations, start accepting responsibility, and find our place on the new frontlines by ISBN: 9781950665075Publication Date: 2020
Redefining Realness: my path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more by ISBN: 9781476709123Publication Date: 2014
So you want to talk about race by ISBN: 9781580057561Publication Date: 2018Also available as an eBook.
This Bridge Called My Back: writings by radical women of color by ISBN: 091317503XPublication Date: 1983
Uprooting Racism: how white people can work for racial justice by ISBN: 0865713383Publication Date: 1998
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by ISBN: 9780805075397Publication Date: 2006
The Warmth of Other Suns: the epic story of America's great migration by ISBN: 9780679444329Publication Date: 2010
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by ISBN: 9780525619772Publication Date: 2018-10-30A collection of Black feminist literature.
West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781610444002Publication Date: 2008-06-12
When Affirmative Action Was White: an untold history of racial inequality in twentieth-century America by ISBN: 0393052133Publication Date: 2005
White Fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism by ISBN: 9780807047415Publication Date: 2018
